J.K. Rowling Predicted Remus Lupin's Death In the Seventh "Harry Potter" Book And We Didn't Even Notice

Even though I've read the Harry Potter series like 15 times, I always find something new with every journey back into the wizarding world. And this time around, I realized that J.K. Rowling loves to predict the deaths of our favorite characters before they even happen.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry loses another father figure, Remus Lupin, his parents' old best friend and functioning werewolf. And earlier on in the book, J.K. hints at it the same way she did with Dumbledore.

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Remember when a fan pointed out that Professor Trelawney predicted Dumbledore's death in Prisoner of Azkaban? In case you need a refresher: everyone is eating Christmas dinner in the Great Hall and Trelawney refuses to sit, saying "Never forget when thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die!" It turns out there might have already 13 people at the table (Peter Pettigrew may have been in Ron's pocket disgusted as Scabbers). Dumbledore was the first at the table to rise, and also the first to die.

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J.K. actually foreshadowed Lupin's death the same way. In Deathly Hallows, Bill Weasley proposes a toast, sending "twelve full glasses soaring through the room to each of them, holding the thirteenth aloft." And just after the thirteen of them drink, Lupin declares that some of the Order needed to go recover Mad-Eye's body (R.I.P., Moody) and then leaves the house with Bill.

The book doesn't say which of them actually stood up first, but since leaving the house was Lupin's plan, we can guess that he was the first of the thirteen to rise. And, as we all know, he was also the first of the group to die.

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